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Baldur's Gate 3 "feels so alive" because it used mo-cap and 248 actors to bring its characters to life (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

I mean, it definitely helps. The production quality is insane. But the fact that the choices (or mistakes) have actual real impacts on the game going forward are as big as far as I'm concerned. I ended up with my hand being forced into combat early that made an encounter with a potential party member immediately hostile. That sucks, especially since I wasn't trying to do what happened in the earlier encounter. But in terms of a world feeling alive, having it actually react to what you do is pretty damn significant (unless "you're small and irrelevant" is intentional).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You also miss out on Minthara? I’ve been hearing she’s great but I merced her ass

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I doubt that they're referring to Minthara; you have to make an intentional series of decisions to >!murder a bunch of people!< in order to get her in your party. It's relatively easy to miss several origin companions if you're not the type that explores the whole map. And one of the origin characters starts with >!a quest to kill one of the others!<.

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